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Revolution: Burn It All Down

Juliet and Aaron cross the Mississippi River into the Plains Nation and stop over in La Grange, Missouri. She tries to make sense of Ellis Gray’s notes and rebuffs Aaron’s offer of help. She sends him off for supplies instead. “Right. Two doctorates from MIT, but I’ll just … I’ll go shopping. Super.” He wanders through the market, passes on the fine leather goods made from vintage Gucci, and has a wiggins when he spots his long lost and abandoned wife Priscilla in the crowd. He sees her again sitting in a bar. Their reunion is … muted and strained. She is painfully uncomfortable and the man sitting next to her is the reason. Steve is her husband. She introduces Aaron simply as an old friend. Aaron reacts like he’s been kicked in the chest. He breathlessly asks if they can go somewhere and talk. He can barely get the words out. Priscilla tells him to take care of himself and turns away. Juliet pulls him to the door before he can make a scene. “She’s asking you to go. Let’s go.” They leave and the camera pans down to show the revolver Steve is holding on Priscilla.

Aaron doesn’t see the gun, but he’s sure something is wrong. Something more than lingering anger and resentment at being abandoned in the middle of the woods. He insists on staying. He won’t leave her again. He searches through the town and comes around a corner to find Priscilla in the back of a wagon, hands and feet bound. She frantically whispers at him to go. Aaron obviousses that Steve is not her husband. Two doctorates. Steve is in fact a bounty hunter and Priscilla is a fugitive. He shoos Aaron away with a wave of his hand. It’s not even worth the effort to brandish his weapon. Aaron walks away and then nuts up and launches himself at Steve. He gets a couple of good shots in, but Aaron is no fighter. Steve pummels him but somehow manages not to break his glasses. I think I was more worried about the specs than I was Aaron, because that is seriously a personal nightmare. Blind as a bat, this one. Anyhoo, Priscilla clubs Steve over the head with a length of pipe and the glasses are saved!

Aaron tends to Priscilla and apologizes for the past. He thought he was protecting her. Priscilla is all like, thanks for that. Everybody else died and she was alone. He asks her to come with them, but she can’t. She’s wanted by the Monroe Republic for murder. She stabbed a militia sergeant who was trying to hurt her 11-year-old daughter. She has a family. They made it to Texas and they’re waiting for her. She tells Aaron she loves him and always will. And then she’s gone.

Miles and Jim Hudson wash the taste of battle out of their mouths with some sweet, sweet healing booze. Captain Dixon enters the tent to deliver the butcher’s bill. He’s the shiny, shiny penny President Bauer assigned to keep an eye on them. If they want her army, “he’s the string attached.” No militia soldiers survived the skirmish. Miles broods that they won, but it took them 22 men to do it. He watches Charlie scavenge the field for weapons and offers an ear if things get too much and she needs to talk. “You want to talk? Let’s talk about what you did to my mom.” Or not.

The new army has been in the field for weeks, and this was not their first success. They’ve taken three militia forts in Illinois. In Philadelphia, Jacobfer remains positive. Don’t think of it as losing. Think of it as “a few little set backs.” Monroe knows what Miles can do with even a small force and how his victories will grow. Miles has to die, NOW! NOW! NOW! He sends a young soldier off with a message. Miles will meet him in their hometown by dawn. The soldier apologizes and takes pains to explain that he was asked to recite the rest of the message word for word:

Miles, you are to come alone and you will turn yourself in to me or else I’m going to kill everyone in our hometown, I swear to God. Anyone you ever loved, or cared about will die, just because they know you. Starting with the mom from “Playthings“ Emma.

Miles slips away and Dixon and Jim beat his destination out of the solider. Charlie doesn’t try to hide her annoyance at Dixon for slowing them down. Nora reassures her that Miles will be fine. Charlie isn’t worried about her uncle’s well being. She just wants to make sure he actually kills Monroe this time.

The good citizens of Hometown are all herded into the courthouse. Emma tries to make sense of what’s going on. These aren’t strangers. They’re Sebastian’s neighbors and teachers. She begs him to let them go. She knows that it’s been a long time, but she knows that he loved her once. And she loved him, too … even if she was engaged to Miles at the time. “There has to still be a part of you, that is you. That is kind. And decent. If there is, please let us go.” Automatic weapons fire heralds Miles’ arrival in town. Monroe turns away from Emma. She has a kind heart. She sees the best in people. “You see the best in me. I want to be the best, I do. I want to be him so badly, you have no idea. But he’s dead.”

“Lock everyone in the basement. Burn it all down.”

Miles picks his way through the town square as the building erupts in flames. He makes it inside and frees the hostages, but Monroe’s men have all the exits covered. Jacobfer gives the order. No one gets out. No one. Emma finds herself at Miles’ side. “It’s good to see you again.” Sorry about the whole being burned alive for knowing me thing. He prepares to make a suicide run at the side door, but Jim and Nora take out the guards for him. They cover the townsfolk as they flee and Miles joins Charlie and Dixon on the other side of the square. Naturally, Emma manages to get her fool self captured. Monroe holds a gun on her and pulls her into view. Dixon urges Miles to take the shot, but he can’t. Not without hitting Emma. Charlie is all like, eff this, I’m killing Monroe.

“If anybody takes that shot, swear to God, I’ll kill ‘em myself.”

Monroe gives Miles to the count of five. Charlie aims. Miles points at her all, ZIPPY ZIPPY! WHAT DID I SAY?? At two, Emma blurts out that she wants to see him again. Not Miles – her son. Monroe’s son. He doesn’t lower the gun, but he does loosen his grip on her. She explains that he was at basic training, and her parents wouldn’t let her tell him. She didn’t tell anyone. The boy isn’t there in the town. He’s at an undisclosed location that Monroe may never know, because Dixon is a terrible shot. Monroe and Emma both fall to the ground. Dixon lowers his gun with a look of satisfaction. Miles turns and puts three rounds in him. Jacobfer drags Monroe away from Emma and into the chopper. Miles stands over her body. “This is how Monroe wants to fight? He’s got it. He has no idea what he’s in for.”

In Atlanta, an aide questions whether they can trust “him”. President Bauer thinks the intelligence they’ve gained is worth it. He’s given them more in three weeks than their spies have gathered in three years. She’s made her decision and she’s sending him where they need him the most – to Miles. Obviously Dixon couldn’t handle Miles and she needs someone who can. She nods to a guard who pulls open her office door.

ALL HAIL THE RETURN OF GUS FRING MAJOR NEVILLE!

Revolution airs Monday at 9:00 p.m. on NBC.

Whitney is also watching Supernatural, The Vampire Diaries, Hawaii Five-0, and Dallas.

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